Covadonga Valdes

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• A search for escape characterizes Valdes’s detailed and luscious oil paintings. Whilst navigating the disquiet of London’s urban chaos, she makes sudden and surprising slippages into patches of solitude- lakes, ponds, and quiet tucked away living spaces; which she photographs and uses as source material. In her paintings, landscapes and interiors form a zone between concrete urban centers and vast expanses of rural quietness, and they range from being photo-realistic images to newsprint-collages. Mood and impressionistic brushwork evoke an emotional engagement with light and weather; and recall and emblazon the countryside.